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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
MONDAY, APRIL 21, 2008
Army investigates journalist's death
BY KARIN LAUB ASSOCIATED PRESS
ASSOCIATED PRESS
A Palestinian rescue worker inspects the wreckage of a vehicle after it was hit in an Israeli missile strike in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, Saturday. One Palestinian was killed and four wounded, according to Palestinian security sources. Earlier in the day, Hamas suicide bombers drove into an Israeli border crossing and detonated two booby-trapped military-style jeeps Saturday, in what a top army commander said was Hamas' most ambitious attempt to target Israelis since Israel's gulab out from Gaza.
JERUSALEM — The Israeli army announced Sunday it will investigate the killing of a cameraman for the Reuters news agency, after a human rights group said it found evidence suggesting that an Israeli tank crew fired recklessly or deliberately at the journalist.
Cameraman Fadel Shana, 23, was killed in Gaza on Wednesday, the bloodiest day of fighting between Israeli troops and Gaza militants in a month. Just before his death, Shana was filming an Israeli tank in the distance, and his final footage shows the tank firing a shell in his direction.
Palestinian medics said two teens wounded in Wednesday's shelling died of their wounds Sunday, bring the total number of Palestinians killed in the shelling to six. In all, 23 Palestinians were killed that day.
Palestinian journalists have staged protests following Shana's death, and on Sunday, several dozen journalists marched in the West Bank city of Ramallah. The marchers, including Palestinian Information Minister Riad Malki, were led by a group carrying a stretcher with a camera and a tripod. They held a banner reading: "The occupiers are responsible for the blood of our colleague."
The Israeli military announced Sunday that it is launching an investigation, which will be reviewed by the Military Advocate General.
"The IDF wishes to emphasize that unlike terrorist organizations, not only does it not it deliberately target uninvolved civilians, it also uses means to avoid such incidents," a statement said. "Reports claiming the opposite are false and misleading."
The announcement comes after New York-based group Human Rights Watch said its own investigation found evidence that the tank crew fired either recklessly or deliberately.
"Iraeli soldiers did not make sure they were aiming at a military target before firing, and there is evidence suggesting they actually targeted the journalists," said Joe Stork, Middle East director at Human Rights Watch. The group called on the Israeli military to investigate.
Also Sunday, a senior Israeli army officer provided new details about a Hamas suicide attack at a Gaza border crossing the day before.
Hamas militants had driven an armored vehicle and two jeeps, made to look like Israeli military vehicles, toward the Kerem Shalom crossing between Israel and Gaza
under the cover of heavy morning fog Saturday.
The armored vehicle broke through the crossing fence, followed by the two jeeps, each packed with about 660 pounds of explosives, said the officer, who was posted at the border crossing. He spoke on condition of anonymity in line with military briefing regulations.
The first jeep exploded at an army watchtower. The officer said he and his men came to investigate when he noticed a second jeep about six yards away. The officer said the jeep aroused his suspicion. He said he yelled "car bomb, car bomb" and ordered his men back into their armored vehicles.
When the second jeep went off, most soldiers had managed to get back into their vehicles, he said.
At one point, the driver of the Palestinian armored vehicle
emerged. "He went toward the forces that had been wounded, and he was shot dead," said the officer.
The officer said three Hamas militants were killed _ two in the jeep explosions and one in the shooting, confirming Hamas' account that three of its members had been killed in the attack. On Saturday, the Israeli military had said four Hamas militants were killed.
Thirteen Israeli soldiers were wounded in the attack.
Following the crossing attack, Israel targeted Hamas militants in a series of missile strikes. Two Palestinians were killed Sunday in southern Gaza, bringing the death toll over two days of air strikes to nine. Palestinian medics said one of the dead was a civilian who drove near a group of militants. The Israeli military said the strike targeted a group of gunmen.
REGIONAL Sebelius signs bill to fund new housing program
TOPEKA — Gov. Kathleen Sebelius signed a bill Friday setting aside $28 billion over the next seven years for a new housing program, with the first relief targeted to disaster-stricken communities.
The agency administering the program announced it will start taking applications in mid-May, so those communities can start receiving grants in July. The new law takes effect Thursday.
The measure is a response to disasters last year. A tornado in May destroyed most of Greensburg, in Kiowa County, and flooding during the summer damaged hundreds of homes in southeast and east-central Kansas.
Legislators already have earmarked more than $50 million in budget legislation to give the state enough money to cover expenses from future disasters. But the bill Sebelius signed is specifically for housing and related infrastructure.
Legislators who drafted the bill said housing assistance will help disaster-stricken communities retain workers, so local businesses continue to operate.
"Affordable work force housing is key in the recovery of communities impacted by disasters, as well as in the overall economic vitality of rural communities across the entire state," Seebelius said in a statement announcing her signing of the measure.
Judge rules to keep graves at airport sites
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A Platte County judge has ruled that the
graves of homestead pioneers scattered across Kansas City International Airport property will stay where they are.
The decision stops a citybacked plan to relocate the numerous 1800s-era cemeteries to make way for economic development.
In a ruling issued late Thursday, Circuit Court Judge Abe Shafer said the city had "failed to demonstrate good cause for the disinterment and movement of the individual remains," adding that the city didn't provide evidence showing the public would benefit from moving the graves.
Shirley Kimsey, a local historian whose family is buried in one of the cemeteries, welcomed the decision.
"Once a cemetery is established, it's supposed to stay where it is forever," Kimsey said. "I was quite sure that the judge was going to do the right thing."
NATIONAL Accused sergeant to face court martial for murder
HONOLULU] — A platoon sergeant accused of shooting an unarmed Iraqi and then ordering another U.S. soldier to "finish him"faces a court martial this week for premeditated murder,
Sgt. 1st Class Trey Corrales, of San Antonio, faces a minimum of life with parole if convicted.
The Iraqi man was shot multiple times in the head and chest near the town of Kirkuk when Corrales' platoon raided a suspected insurgent hide out on June 23. The U.S.military hasn't been able to identify the man by name.
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